We are pleased to announce the following 2010 session topics and presenters, in addition to our keynote presentation with Cynthia Bourgeault and our masters presentations with Helen, David, Terry, and Peter. With the exception of guests Himayat Inayati and Glenis Redmond, all presenters listed below are certified teachers in the Narrative Tradition. We are surely looking forward to the exciting information and experiences that will be shared at this year's conference thanks to the contributions of all involved. A big thanks to each of you!
LIVING FROM THE HEART
Himayat Inayati
Saturday, October 30 | 2:15pm – 3:45pm
An experiential session of living with the Big Heart, Himayat will teach us how to access the subtle heart. Learn how to listen, speak, and act consciously from the heart and how to use one of the heart’s greatest gifts, the meeting place, "the Realm of Mythal."
Himayat Inayati, Th.D. is a traveler on the path of the heart. He has been a member of the Sufi Order International since 1972, receiving the sacred transmission of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Murshid Samuel Lewis. For 20 years, Himayat was the international head of The Sufi Healing Order. He has been a catalytic figure in the ongoing dialogue between science, spirituality, and healing, organizing 26 conferences in support of it. The founder of The Raphaelite Work, a method of healing and transformational process rooted in Sufism and updated by modern psychology and body work, Himayat has taught mysticism and spirituality in 14 different countries. His teaching is lucid, accessible and humorous, orienting the ancient mystical teaching of the major world spiritual traditions toward solutions of contemporary issues. Himayat is the founder/president of Universal Awakening. He and his wife Shahida co-direct Light of Mountains Retreat Center, in Leicester, North Carolina, near Asheville.
AWAKEN
Glenis Redmond
Sunday October 31 | 9:00am – 10:00am
Glenis Redmond is poet, educator, performer, and counselor rolled into one passionate soul. She presents her poetry in performances that cause the printed word to spring from the page and dance, sing, weep, and laugh. Glenis tells stories with poetry from her life, her family, her African-American heritage, and her sensitive observations of the world around her — inspiring audiences of all ages. In her workshops and performances, she encourages participants to know themselves and their origin, thereby finding their own inspiration and their own stories.
Glenis began writing poetry at the age of 12. She worked for seven years as a family counselor. While enrolled in a Doctoral program in psychology, she rediscovered her love for poetry. Pregnancy with twins and a serious illness helped her find the strength to follow her heart and dedicate her life to her childhood passion. Glenis has won numerous awards including The Carrie McCray Literary Award in Poetry, a study fellowship from Vermont Writing Center, study scholarships to the Atlantic Center for the Arts and a week of study with Natalie Goldberg. Glenis is the 1997 and the 1998 Southeast Regional Individual Poetry Slam Champion. She placed in the Top 10 in 1996 and 1997 at the National Individual Slam Championship.
THREE CENTERS OF INTELLIGENCE
Curt Spear, Tim Flood, David Daniels, and Marion Gilbert
Friday, October, 29 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
This special, multi-leader presentation offers a didactic on the three centers, revealing their gifts as well as will review distinctive ways to balance these centers. David Daniels will lead a three-centers panel following the presentation.
Curt Spear, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio. Curt is certified with Don Beck in Spiral Dynamics and is actively involved in integral and evolutionary theory and its practical applications to evolving consciousness, such as helping guide the collaborative-divorce movement in Cincinnati.
Tim Flood’s "checkered past" includes stints as a dinner theater actor, an advertising creative director, and a broadcast producer. A small business owner and consultant since 1981, Tim currently delivers leadership development programs, facilitates intra-agency government teams engaged in environmental clean-up, and leads monthly Enneagram groups in Tampa Bay and in other locations in the Southeast.
Marion Gilbert, RPT has been practicing physical therapy for 30 years and is the co-owner of Spring Hill Physical Therapy & Acupuncture Center in Grass Valley, California. Marion teaches regularly with Helen Palmer and Terry Saracino. Her primary focus is on manual therapy and trauma resolution.
TRANSFORM TIPS
Mary Ann Wampler and Theresa Gale
October 28 – 31 | quick-minutes throughout
Founders of Transform, Inc., Mary Ann and Theresa will offer "Transform Tips," 60-second Tips on the Business of Transformation, throughout the conference, which are one-minute take-aways that include ideas/practices in working with others that they have found successful, and of great value to their business endeavors.
Mary Anne Wampler and Theresa Gale are co-owners of Transform, Inc. and
co-authors of the book, Wake Up and SELL!. For over 15 years, they have
been helping companies ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500
corporations to succeed and grow using the Enneagram as a tool to help accelerate leadership, sales, customer and employee development.
FRI | OCTOBER 30 | CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSION
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Three Choices | Designation Required at Conference Registration Desk
TEACHING THE ENNEAGRAM FROM THE INSIDE-OUT
Bill Schafer and Alice Mixer
Friday, October 29 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
This approach uses simple exercises to teach people their habitual mode of processing experience (center), then their typical form of life energy (yin, yang, or reconciling). From this “inside feel” of how energy moves (or gets stuck), the teaching then moves “outward” to the preoccupations and behavioral patterns of type.
Bill Schafer and Alice Mixer have used this approach with audiences in California, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Idaho, and Arizona as well as in their home state of Michigan. Alice is a clinical social worker and a life-long spiritual seeker. Bill is a clinical psychologist who has spent forty years practicing and teaching about clinical work with infants, toddlers and their families. He is also author of Roaming Free Inside the Cage: a Daoist Approach to the Enneagram and Spiritual Transformation, New York: iUniverse, 2009.
A TRANSFORMATiVE METHOD TO ENGAGE THE ESSENTIAL SELF — WORKING COGNITIVELY WITH TYPES' MINDSETS IN ONE-TO-ONE SETTINGS
Anne Wotring, Ph.D. | Friday, October 29 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
This workshop will demonstrate how Anne helps her coaching clients take quantum leaps forward, combining both Enneagram type knowledge and an elegant cognitive questioning approach called Inquiry. Inquiry involves identifying one's own type's beliefs and engaging one's greater mind in examining them using four straight-forward questions: Is it true? Can you absolutely know it's true? How do you react when you believe the thought? Who would you be without the thought? (This method is also called The Work of Byron Katie.) As clients engage these questions, their minds' open to their inherent, larger capacity, resulting in greater freedom from their Type's habitual constraints and limited perspectives, regularly producing decidedly alchemical gestalts.
Anne Wotring, Ph.D. is a leadership and life coach, group facilitator, educator, speaker and writer, whose gift lies in translating esoteric, spiritual concepts into mainstream culture.
THE ENNEAGRAM GOES TO COURT — AND OTHER BUSINESSES
Linda Frazee and Jaye Andres
Friday, October 29 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
This session will bring insights into how Linda and Jaye have used the Enneagram in the court system with judges and their staffs. (Don't prejudge your audience!) Participants will learn ways to adapt information and material to the business environment as well as learn techniques for capturing and keeping your audience’s attention.
Linda Frazee & Jaye Andres have over 35 years combined experience in working with individuals and businesses to enhance life and increase productivity. Linda's training is as a professional speaker and business consultant and Jaye has a background in psychology and a Masters in Business Administration. They are both certified Enneagram professionals and are members of the International Enneagram Association and the Association of Enneagram Teachers in the Narrative Tradition. Linda and Jaye are located in Phoenix, Arizona.
SAT | OCTOBER 31 | CONFERENCE BREAKOUT SESSION
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Three Choices | Designation Required at Conference Registration Desk
SHORT TAKES
Four 20-minute presentations | Four Topics
Saturday, October 30 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
1 - STRATEGIES FOR TYPING CLIENTS TO FACILITATE SELF-INQUIRY
David K. Banner, PhD
This session focuses on typing others who want to use the Enneagram for self-inquiry. We'll discuss "lookalike types," the influence of the stress and comfort arrows, and how to use them to narrow down on a specific type. Finally, David will demonstrate how to use compare-and-contrast questions to help determine type for a client, noting, of course, that the final decision on type must come from the clients themselves.
David K. Banner, Ph.D., is a mentor for Walden University, community volunteer , author, former business entrepreneur, consultant, and writer. He lives his life with zest, enthusiasm, and joy!
2 - WEAVING TEACHING AND FACILITATION
Leslie Hershberger
While teaching assumes a position of primacy in imparting unfamiliar information, facilitation invites one into relationship with self, other, and topic; each has inherent value and both have the potential to transform the teacher as well as the student. This session will begin with a brief centering practice, a crucial skill that can elicit a state-shift that enhances receptivity and openness. Participants will have the opportunity to complete a take-home self-inquiry worksheet in which they explore their obstacles when teaching or facilitating.
Leslie Hershberger, a teacher since 1982, weaves the Enneagram, integral theory, and contemplative practice into the workshops she offers to teachers, high schoolers, adult students, and recovering addicts in the Integral Recovery Program. She mentors ESNT (EPTP) teachers and is currently doing facilitation training for the facilitators in the Off the Streets program, which assists women moving beyond prostitution and addiction.
3 - LEADERSHIP IN MANAGING CHANGE
Vibha Gosselin and Jerome Virouleau
Discover how to use the Enneagram in a two-day training to develop leadership when managing change. We’ll explore how the three centers interact and will engage exercises and sharing about your own personal experience of change.
Vibha Gosselin's daily use of the Enneagram strengthens her basic practice of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga. She is interested in developing material that combines both approaches to human growth.
Jerome Virouleau has been teaching the Enneagram in France to leaders, managers, and employees for the past ten years. Along with the Enneagram, he combines various management techniques (communications, conflict management) in his training sessions. Jerome is also a team building coach.
4 – SOMATIC AWARENESS
Peter O'Hanrahan
How can we incorporate simple breathing and stretching exercises into our daily routine and into our teaching work with groups? What's important is bodywork which supports learning, vitality and embodiment in ways that people will remember. If it feels good - we're more likely to practice!
Peter has been combining the Enneagram with somatic work since 1978 with an emphasis on Reichian/Bioenergetic bodywork. He teaches the Embodied Enneagram workshop and writes about the somatic profiles of the nine character types.
The Master, The Mystic, and The Muse | Eric Wheeler
Saturday, October 30 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Frank Lloyd Wright’s third wife, Olgivanna, was an early and lifelong devotee of Gurdjieff’s Fourth Way mysticism and introduced Frank to Gurdjieff and his teachings. How much of Wright’s post-Prairie Style architecture was influenced by Gurdjieff’s spiritual understandings of the material world through Olgivanna? This presentation is intended to be more speculative than scholarly in addressing this question.
Eric Wheeler offers seminars and private consultations in the Enneagram for churches, schools, businesses, and individuals in the upper Midwest. He is an adjunct faculty member of Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin and a consultant for historic preservation.
MASTER PANELS
David Daniels M.D.
Saturday, October 30 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm
David will focus on the secrets to masterful panel leadership interwoven with presenting the core theme for all of us, the three centers of intelligence. This session is for those who wish to hone their panel interviewing skills and receive feedback from one of the panel interviewing masters. Participants will interview panelists as well as sit on panels to offer feedback for interviewers.
